Photo by Georg Kohr
Four-spotted-chaser
After a wonderful day our on May 11th last year, we returned to enjoy our garden.
In the early summer breeze a dragonfly happened to have lost it’s way fron a nearby pond. In the late afternoon sky, I shot a complte series of this fast guy with my trusted Pentax K-1 II. In Crop mode together with the DFA 70-210 f.4.0 ant a 1.4 times Teleconverter I almost got a equivalent focal length of almost 410mm.
Post processing notes:
I worked hard with a variety of filters, to squeeze ou the most detail out of the shot. I used the channel mixer, the curves filter, split tone and bleach bypass. The result is an almost b/w rendering of a brilliant blue sky. The four spots were masked in to recolor them. I got his shot originally in Landscape mode and changed it to Portrait mode. A resize to 4264 * 6400 px was made, together with a moderat sharpening. The result is a crystal clear wing rendition against a dark backgreound with astonishing detailExif information:
| Copyright: | geko-grafx |
| Camera: | PENTAX K-1 Mark II |
| Aperture: | f/11 |
| Focal Length: | 294mm |
| ISO: | 1000 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/3200 sec. |
| Created: | May 11, 2025 16:43:26 |